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It’s not that it’s hard to write a rule for “respectively”. It’s that it needs its own rule, specifically. The general rules don’t cover it.

fish guts, leafmold

Per formal linguistics, it’s “respectively”.

Like: Bob, Alicia, and Siobhan are a teacher, plumber, and electrician, respectively.

We know this means Bob is a teacher and Siobhan is an electrician, but trying to write rules for how English works that account for this usage is thorny.

Yes, I’ve eaten them many times.

How often emotional vulnerability leads to positive outcomes.

I’m loving Rule 12, oughtta be the norm everywhere

69 Love Songs from The Magnetic Fields

Yes, but sometimes they’re other colors.

• Civ IV, just for the mod Fall from Heaven ][

• Dwarf Fortress, natch

• Minecraft

• Tetris

• Spelunky

• MarioKart Double Dash

• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

and I guess I’ll save the other three for games that haven’t been made yet. Actually, since I do make games, I’ll pick three games I make myself.

all stable versions of Dwarf Fortress and all the NES, SNES, and GBA ROMs and manuals I can find

uh, and a backup of my personal blog, I guess

Yeah, why wouldn’t I?

George Washington Carver. Born enslaved, became a chemist, and proceeded to look around his community and ask, “What do we need? What do we have?” Most famously, what they needed was crop rotation. What they had to rotate in was peanuts, so they needed a market for peanuts, so GWC set out to create a bunch of peanut- and peanut-oil-based products. That’s just the most famous example out of many; he spent his whole adult life doing this over and over.

Manel — Teresa Rampell

We moved to an information economy. It’s not just paper, it’s information.

Is this what I’m doing wrong? I hate telling strangers my name.

I don’t believe in an afterlife.

If I could design a system it would be reincarnation with intact memory.

Yes, many times. Good for roasting especially.

Two very different things.

AI porn doesn’t need to exploit real people and is, as you say, a boon to those with impractical fetishes.

AI “relationships” are basically a mental health crisis.

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